Community Essays

Cynthia Mendes

"Art is Liberation"

Anonymous

"A True Anchor Baby"

Shreya Kaipa

"Growing in Sankofa"

Andrea Mazzarino

"On bearing witness to the costs of the post-9/11 wars, 20 years in"

Meg O’Neill

"I moved to New York City in 1999 to chase my dream of becoming a writer."

Patrick May

"Birds"

Susan Johnston

"COVID NY"

Scarlet Santos

"How Covid-19 Affected My Family"

Mark Makuch

"Take it from me, I built the wall."

Padma Venkatraman

"Our American Constellation"

Henri Flikier

"The Other"

Consul General Meron Reuben

"Being an immigrant is not fun."

Lex Rofeberg

"Growing Up as an American Jew"

Naomi Kim

"So I slip out the door. Unnoticed, unmissed."

Michelle Liu

"Even as a child, I remember wanting to be white."

Andrew Lee

"Dear Andrew, I know you crave assimilation."

Ally Zhu

"For a culture to be palatable, it may often exist as stereotypes."

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